Introduction & Background: Asthma is a common respiratory disease that is diagnosed in children across the United States. Children living in larger cities obtain worse symptoms due to environmental triggers. American children, who live in big cities, with an asthma diagnosis require sufficient nursing care to make their diagnosis manageable.
Purpose Statement & Research Question: Our PICOT question was “What does nursing care look like for a child living in a large city, in the United States, who has asthma?”.
Literature Review: The study consists of six peer-reviewed articles chosen from online databases such as CINHL and PubMed.
Findings: In the annotated studies, environmental factors were found to be the leading trigger for asthma children in the United States. It was also proven that nurses with experience in the care of asthma provided better care to their asthma patients. Additionally, there is no correlation between asthma and obesity, but starting immunotherapy in children can better quality of life in children with asthma.
Conclusion & Nursing Implications: Considering our findings, the best way to provide nursing care to children with asthma is to improve air quality. Nurses can recommend products for parents and families to install in their homes to better the air quality for the benefit of their children. Parents can also limit the harmful products and factors children are around such as smoking, vaping, mold growth, insect infestation, dust, and kerosene. Limiting these factors will improve the quality of life of these children and decrease the chances of asthma attacks and flare ups.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ETSU/oai:dc.etsu.edu:es-conf-1142 |
| Date | 11 April 2024 |
| Creators | Dueltgen, Kody, Watson, Faith, Reynolds, Sydnie |
| Publisher | Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University |
| Source Sets | East Tennessee State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Source | Epsilon Sigma at-Large Research Conference |
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